OMG a BEAR Update post # 11

[chick4chicks]

Got home from Chickenstock, put my new babes away except the escaped runner duck. Was sitting out back in my chair trying to get escapee, I looked up and thought what is that big dog doing in my yard. WRONG it was a BEAR. I jumped up and started screaming, it ran down the road. I walked down the road trying to see where it went, I know stupid but my babes were in danger. Now please PRAY it do
doesn't come back, I am so worried. Thanks for listening.

 

[Wolfwoman]

Hmm, dinner and a bear rug. Git yer gun!!

 

[chick4chicks]

Like the rug idea.

 

[Dogfish]

Black bears are pretty timid and will almost always run. Just make noise, and turn on your electric fence.

 

[Wolfwoman]

Black bear is actually quite tasty at this time of year, before they start eating fish. And timid is not the words I'd use for our black bears.

 

[arch_cpj]

yep an electric fence is a must wheres thers one theres more and you need at least 14 gauge wire and a really heavy duty fencer proabably a 50 or 100 mile low impedance would work 3 ground rods and steel t posts every 10 feet build it stout to keep bears out!!!! if you dont do this then dont be suprised to fing your coop opened up like a tin can I dont care how strong it is.... Personnally if I lived in bear country my yard would be enclosed with a high tensile fence they are rated for 50 plus years service and look good and a bear will not go through one...

 

[mvktr2]

Grizzlies generally maul to protect young, because they're startled, etc. Rarely eat the victim just maul and move on, usually. Black bears will surely do the same thing (mothers as they are), but generally a startled blk bear runs. If blk bears come after you it's to eat you... YIKES! It's something like a 10-1 margin or some outlandish number of blk bears to grizzlies/kodiak that eat their victims. I'm no bear expert but I slept at a holiday inn one time!

Schlante,
Phillip

 

[oldchickenlady]

OMG! That would have freaked me out! We have bears here in TN too, but mostly over in east TN, so I don't expect to ever see one in my yard. The electric fence suggestion...sounds like a good option to me!

 

[Mervin]

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Their diet doesn't include too much fish in PA, but a heck of a lot of carrion. I've heard all sorts of wives tales about which bears you can eat. The simplest is this... "If you can eat a sandwich whilst standing next to the freshly killed bear, then you can probably eat the bear. Otherwise just make a rug and be done."

Timid, IMO, is not a good word. Most of the time they will run. This time a year the sows have their cubs out teaching them to forage and, IMO, that is the biggest danger. If a sow perceives you as a threat to her young that's just bad bad day.

 

[panner123]

For those that enjoy bacon and eggs, bear bacon is by far the best you can get.